All the Children Had to Watch

Annan was head of the UN's peacekeeping office in 1994, when some 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus in Rwanda. He was silent then, as he is now. So was the Clinton administration in 1994, as revealed in damning detail on Frontline's "The Triumph of Evil" (PBS, January 26, 1999) and in Philip Gourevitch's book, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Will Secretary of State Colin Powell also be remembered for his silence on slavery and genocide in Sudan?